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1 3, 1949
Number 23
Z.O.A. Insists on Autonomy; Elects Frisch
NEWS in BRIEF
Nod to Yiddish Theater
JERUSALEM. (JTA)—The for
mal opening of the Hebrew Uni-
versity-Hadassah Medical School
took place last week in the muni
cipal garden in front of the build
ings which temporarily house the
school until it can be moved to
Mt. Scopus.
Med School Opened
WARSAW. (JTA)—The Polish
Ministry of Culture and Art is
ready to recognize Jewish thea
tres in Lodz and Lower Silesia as
state institutions and to have their
expenses covered in the govern
ment budget.
Thousand Couples
In Israel Marry
On Lag B’Omer
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—At least
1,000 couples took advantage of
the Lag B’Omer holiday here to
go through wedding ceremonies.
The festival was celebrated by
huge bonfires throughout the
ilee near Meron, traditional center
of the festival celebration.
British Liberal
Shules Leave
Deputy Board
LONDON, (JTA)—The final
withdrawal of the Union of Liberal
Progressive Synagogues from the
Board of Deputies of British Jews
was forecast here this week in a
decision adopted by a meeting of
the officers and representatives to
the board of Liberal synagogues
and congregations composing the
Union.
The unanimous decision of last
night’s session was to recommend
to all affiliated organizations that
they do not return to the Board of
Deputies. The Liberals walked
out of the Board some weeks ago
when they were defeated over the
question of whether the Orthodox
religious authorities or lay leaders
of Liberal synagogues shall ap
point officials who record mar-
country and the founding of two dage services in the Liberal con-
new settlements in the Upper Gal-
gregations.
General Van Horn Moseley
Back at Old Hate Stand
BY ALEXANDER F. MILLER
Director, Southern A. D. L. Regional Office
General George Van Horn Moseley, who in 1939 offered himself as
American’s feuhrer, with few takers, is back again in the hate business,
albeit on a modest scale. The aged general, who lives in fine style on
a government pension, at one of Atlanta’s best hotels, has taken to
writing grumpy letters expressing his resentment against juvenile de
linquents and Jews.
Last year in a public letter he urged the horse-whipping of juvenile
delinquents at Five Points, Atlanta’s busiest intersection. On May
21, this year, in a letter to Senator Arthur Vandenberg, mimeographed
copies of which were sent to newspapers and individuals all over the
U. S., Moseley berates the venerable Senior Senator from Michigan for
his support of David Lilienthal, implying that the Senator sold his
American birthright for a mess of Jewish votes.
The letter drags out the old canard about the Jewish plot to rule the
world and takes snide cracks at Bernard Baruch and Justice Felix
Frankfurter.
Mosely threatens, “You will probably throw this letter into the
scrap basket, but Senator, I have friends all over the United States and
copies of it will go privately to many of them.”
NEW YORK, May 30. (JTA)—
The three-day 52nd annual con
vention of the Zionist Organiza
tion of America concluded here
tonight following the election of
Daniel Frisch as president and the
adoption of a resolution insisting
upon the administrative autonomy
of the American Zionist movement
in its relationship with the Jewish
Agency executive. The 2,000 dele
gates at the parley also adopted a
resolution referring to the incom
ing administration for study the
Rifkihd report which recommends
basic structural changes in the
World Zionist Organization.
The resolution on autonomy,
which expressed approval of the
resignations of Drs. Abba Hillel
Silver and Emanuel Neumann
from the Agency executive over
the issue, stated “that it is in the
interest of the World Zionist
Movement and of Israel that the
influence of the Zionist Organiza
tion of America in all fund-raising
activities and institutions in the
United States shall be preserved
and its representatiort on the gov
erning bodies t>f American Zionist
funds shall be unimpaired.” It also
demanded “that the administra
tive autonomy heretofore enjoyed
by American Zionist bodies within
the framework of the World Zion
ist Movement and its constitu
tional provisions, shall be vigor
ously asserted and fully preserved
and safeguarded in the future.”
In referring the Rifkindi report
to the Administrative Council of
the new administration, the con
vention said that since it contains
“so many far-reaching recommen-
proval and “full confidence” in
the Jeadership of the administra
tion headed by Dr. Neumann, the
outgoing president.
The convention closed with a
testimonial banquet for Dr. Neu
mann.
In his speech of acceptance of
the presidency of the organiza
tion, Mr. Frisch placed special
emphasis on the United Jewish
Appeal, declaring that the “heroic,
willing self-sacrificing Yishuv”
will not be in a position to con
tinue its open-door policy, “unless
we provide the means.” The time
has passed “when we could afford
to indulge in mere sympathetic lip
service or contributions 1 to general
funds, however important. This is
dations” it requires further study j the hour of deeds and more deeds,
and should therefore be widely and we shall accomplish them not
circulated as “material for study
and public discussion.” A third
political resolution expressed ap-
in anonymity, but in our own
name, in the name of the Z.O.A.,
(Continued on page eight)
Federation Board Reelects Medintz;
Hears Budget Troubles, Center Report
BY ADOLPH ROSENBERG
Imminence of a $1,250,000 cap
ital fund drive for the new com
munity center and a home for the
aged within the next two or three
years and a discussion of social
welfare work in the Atlanta area
featured the annual meeting of
the Federation fo: Jewish Social
Service last Monday.
Herman Heyman, making the
treasurer’s report for the three
constituent agencies of the Feder
ation, the Montefiore Family Ser
vice Bureau, the Jewish Educa
tional Alliance and the Morris
Hirsch Clinic, told of the adjust
ments necessitated because the
Atlanta Community Chest did not
raise its expected amount.
The Federation had an income
of $80,441.94 during the year,
$61,054 being the Community
Chest allocation. The balance
came from membership fees, dues,
contributions, refunds, etc. The
! expenditure of $83,949.56 repre
sented a $3,507.71 deficit, which
was overcome by a special alloca
tion of $3,000 from the Community
Chest and the expenditure of
$507.71 from the Federation re-
Atlanta’s Exodus Drive at $680,000
Mark; $470,000 Still Needed
After a men’s report meeting
Thursday, May 26 an4 a women’s
report Friday, May 27, Barney
Medintz, general chairman, an
nounced that the Atlanta Jewish
Fund Campaign had passed the
$680,000 mark.
The sum of $470,000 is needed
to reach the Campaign goal of
$1,150,000. Many cards are still to
be reported from the men’s wo
men’s and youth divisions. The
workers who have these cards
have the responsibility for the
success of the Campaign. The job
is to get the cards signed and
turned in to the Welfare Fund
Office in the Chamber of Com
merce Building.
Mr. Medintz points out that At
lanta is at the stage in the Cam
paign when it is necessary to take
stock of what has been achieved
and plan ways and means of driv
ing to a successful conclusion. To
do this it is vital that every signed
card be turned in at once and the
unsigned cards be worked, he said.
Every Division is in full swing.
The Youth Division marked a suc
cessful week with fund raising
activity at the meetings of B’nai
B’rith Young Women and Junior
Hadassah. Sunday morning, May
29, Charles Speilberger, chairman
of the Youth Division, accepted a
check from the Temple Sunday
School children for substantially
more than last year. The B’nai
B’rith Girls sent in a check rep
resenting the money made on their
fashion show.
Mrs. Jake Abelson and Mrs.
Morton Weiss are receiving daily
reports from the workers in the
General Solicitation Division of
the Women’s Campaign. Every re
port shows an increase over 1948.
Besides the regular report meet
ings, every day brings a flow of
cards to the Welfare Fund Office
from Men’s Division workers. Isa-
dore Heiman, Thomas Makover,
Max Kuniansky and many others
are constantly calling and advis
ing the office of the progress of
their cards. As soon as cards are
signed, they send them in to the
Welfare Fund Office.
The officers of the Fund feel
the Campaign is going well. But to
insure success they quote Mr.
Morris Newman’s famous state
ment to the Retail Food Commit
tee, “For success the Campaign
needs three things , . , work, work
and work,”
Mr. Taylor paid tribute to the
Jewish community for having one
of the city’s oldest organized social
welfare efforts. He asserted that
more than $20,000,000 is being
spent annually in this area for
social welfare by public and pri
vate agencies.
Pointing out, however, the in
adequacy of this sum, he related
that Seattle, a city of comparable
size, is spending twice as much.
He listed as spheres on which
great strides are sorely needed in
Atlanta—more houses for low-in
come people, more parks and play
grounds, better recreational cen
ters, higher standard of living for
Negroes, better schools, psychia
tric care, better institutional and
hospitalization for chronic ill and
the aged, more hospital beds, uni
fication of services and a school
for social workers.
The brisk meeting was paced by
reports of President Barney
Medintz and Alliance Chairman
Mayer Balser on progress made
so far on the new community
center site.
They revealed that grading is
now progressing on the eight
acreas which have been laid out
by a professional recreational area
expert; that the athletic field
should be in use within a few
weeks, and that the former two-
story mansion on the site is being
remodeled to serve as a temporary
gym.
Mr. Balser proposed that $16,000
Judaism Council Asks
Press Not to Describe
Israelis as Jews
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Editors
of major press associations in
Washington have been asked to
refrain from describing citizens of
Israel as “Jews” in a letter ad
dressed to them by Joseph D.
Kauliman, chairman of the Wash
ington chapter of the American
Council for Judaism. The letter
points out that “careless use of
the words ‘Jew’ and ‘Jewish’ to
describe aspects of the sovereign
state of Israel can lead only to
confusion.”
be used for the remodeling pur
poses from Federation reserve
funds since technically repair work
does not come within the purvey
of the new community center
funds or Federation budget. The
board approved this action.
Mrs. I. F. Sterne, chairman,
made the Montefiore Bureau re
port. Dr. Nathan Blass reported
for the Clinic.
In his remarks, Executive Direc
tor Ed Kahn compared the return
of community motivation in cer
tain activities to the philosophy
which originally inspired the de
velopment of Jewish welfare
agencies; namely, the large-scale
immigration 70 to 80 years ago
and again today.
He referred to the likehood of a
capital funds campaign in Atlanta
cpvering a period of the next two
to three years for the new center
and the new home for the aged.
He also discussed the shaken
financial balance caused by the
“failure of the Community Chest
in 1948 to raise the total sum
needed for 1949.”
The Federation and its consti
tuent agencies, he continued, may
have to join the long line of other
communities in all sections of the
country and seek supplementation
from the Welfare Fund to meet
what may be regarded as emer
gencies on the local level of high
standards are to be maintained.
Medintz Again
Is President
Of Federation
Barney Medintz was reelected
president of the Atlanta Federa
tion for Jewish Social Service at
the annual meeting held last
Monday.
Meyer Balser, Frank Garson
and Mrs. I. F. Sterne were chosen
vice presidents; Ben J. Massell,
treasurer, and Mrs. J. E. Summer-
field, secretary.
Ted Fisher, Dr. Nathan Ger-
shon, Elliott Goldstein, Joseph
Haas, Robert Lipshutz, Jack Ma-
(Continued on page eight)